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Program: This is a an existing 1971, four bedroom, three bath, mid century, post and beam home, with an attached two car garage. The program is to add 1,541 sq. ft. to the existing home, expanding the master bedroom and master bathroom, as well as relocating the entire second floor over the existing first level, to capture the Los Angeles City views and the entire valley basin.

The exterior is cladded in a white washed cedar, hung on a rain screen system that allows the wood to expand and contract naturally, while the black smooth steel troweled stucco under, keeps the U value and vapor barrier secure. The addition of 3 sets of 20 foot wide, 9 foot tall pocket doors, allows for an interior to exterior relationship that passively cools the home along with the use of the homes several statigically located skylights. The open plan and the use of the homes exterior materials, used on the inside, blurs the users ideals from wha truly is the outside versus the inside.

The addition of the newly designed three sided infinity edged pool, acts as the homes AC system. As the trade winds cross over the pools cool surface the hot air will cool, and invert while entering into the home, cooling it, just like the convection cycle. New green xeroscape allows the home grounds to be extremely low maintence, and care free.